After his coaching career, McCartney co-founded the Christian organization "Promise Keepers." He had four children with his late wife, Lynne.

(RNS) — Bill McCartney, a former college football coach who became one of the most influential religious figures in American life during the 1990s after founding the Promise Keepers movement ...

Bill McCartney, the former University of Colorado football coach who became a prominent religious figure in the 1990s after founding the Promise Keepers movement, died Friday at the age of 84.